Speaking Across the Curriculum

The Speaking Across the Curriculum Initiative at Sewanee originates in the five-year Quality Enhancement Program: “Learning to Speak—Speaking to Learn.” Since the 2016-2017 academic year, at least five faculty members have been selected to be Faculty Speaking Fellows for that academic year.

Fellows teach one or more courses that are speaking-intensive. During the fellowship year, faculty meet several times a month for a series of workshops, lunch seminars, and work sessions specifically designed to help them develop the knowledge, expertise, and tools necessary to teach and assess discipline-specific speaking concepts and skills to their students. Faculty Speaking Fellows are awarded stipends to support the extra time they are devoting to developing the speaking-intensive components of their courses.

The call for applications to become a Faculty Speaking Fellow is announced in January each year, and proposals require a description and rationale for the speaking-intensive course faculty propose to teach.

2017-2018 Faculty Speaking Fellows

Richard ApgarAssistant Professor of German and German StudiesSpeaking-Intensive Course: GRMN 311 and 312 – German Culture and Composition I and II